These 7 Facts About The Film ‘Sairat’ Will Make You Want To Watch It Right Now!

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Sairat is the highest grossing Marathi Film yet. And why shouldn’t it be? It’s amazing to see the Marathi Film Industry do quality cinema. It is about a boy from a lower-caste who falls in love with the daughter of an upper-caste politician. This leads to a lot of conflict because of the socio-political conditions around them and the entire film revolves around how they escaped it.

Here are the 7 best facts you didn’t know about this film that will totally change the way you look at Marathi Cinema and the future of the Indian Film Industry!

1. The lead of the film, Rinku Rajguru, received a National Award for her performance in Sairat, She’s only 14-years-old.

2. The film performed so well in Satara, Maharashtra, that they had to add extra screens and play a special 3 AM show to cater to the audience!

3. Sairat received a standing ovation at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

4. After the success of the film, all the employees who worked on-set were paid extra from the profits. The actors receive 5 Crores each.

5. Sairat earned 65 Crores in just three weeks at the box-office (with nominal screens), making it the most fastest and highest grossing Marathi films ever!

6. The interval of the film comes after 2 hours. The last half of the film is only 44 minutes short.

7. Sairat is the first Indian film to record its music in Hollywood’s Sony Scoring Stage, California.

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Unconventional looks, no godfather in Bollywood and no story of exponential rise in the industry! It’s Irrfan Khan, the actor, the person and the global Indian. The guy made a name for himself from the ground up, brick by brick. Ask his fans and they would almost certainly try convincing you that in terms of acting talent, this guy is all other Bollywood Khans put together. Perhaps! He certainly is one of The Best actors in the industry. No doubts about that.

Let's take a look at 12 Interesting and unknown facts about Irrfan Khan that will make you admire the actor even more:

1. He became an actor by chance. He wanted to be a cricketer. Parents disapproved of it. As if by stroke of luck, he got a scholarship to attend NSD (National School of Drama). He was pursuing MA in Jaipur at that time. And he lied about having past theater experience to get in. By all means, it was a ‘good lie.’ We only have a handful of real artists like him in Bollywood.

2. He was a final year student at NSD (1988) when Mira Nair chose him for a role in Salaam Bombay.

3. A TV regular from 1994 to 1998, Irrfan was so bored at one point in time that he thought of quitting. It is an award winning movie based on local tribes of Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh.

4. His real name – Sahabzade Irfan Ali Khan. He was born in the village of TONK in Jaipur, in a well off family with royal connections. He has two siblings and his father was a wealthy Zamindar who wanted his son to join the family tyre business. Good that he didn’t.

5. He added an extra ‘R’ to his name – hence the name IRRFAN. And it was not a numerologist who suggested this. Irrfan did it himself.

6. At 6 feet, 1 inch, Irrfan is one of the tallest actors in Bollywood.

7. LunchBox is the only Indian movie to have ever won a TFCA – Toronto Film Critics Association Award. With so much talent he sure has a long way to go.

8. He was offered a big role in Interstellar, but turned it down as he was expected to stay in USA for four months at a stretch.

9. Our home grown Irrfan Khan play the full fledged baddie in the hollywood movie The Amazing Spider-Man in 2012.

10. He has a wish – to gift his mother a suitcase full of money.

11. Julia Roberts stopped outside the Kodak Theater (where the Oscars were being staged) to compliment Irrfan on Slumdog Millionaire.

12. He reads a LOT; almost one new Hollywood script per week to better understand how to play his roles better. Irrfan did about 200 episodes of this TV serial in 1990s.

We often read about the popular Bollywood celebs that are good-looking and rich, but very few of us may be reading about those actors whose contributions make films a big success. Johnny Lever is a respectable name in the film industry. He is one of the first stand-up comedians in India. Johnny was born and raised in Mumbai’s King Circle area, Dharavi. The actor drew his career line in 1984 and has acted in more than 300 films.

Despite the hurdles in life, Johnny kept smiling with the sole purpose to make others happy by his aura. He is one of the most noted comedians in Bollywood, who has made people smile, cry, laugh, and happy by his brilliant acting. We have collected some highlight on Johnny’s career life with the help of few pictures.

1. A Star With A Young Heart

Johnny pursued his studies in Andhra Education Society English High School; however he was a drop out due to financial constraints in his family. He studied till 7th grade. Johnny started to sell pens on the streets by dancing on popular tracks and imitating the Bollywood actors.

2. A Man with Funny Bones

Johnny spent many years in Yakutpura too. It is an old city of Hyderabad. This was a major movement in his career as he learnt their language and originated a different style of acting in comic genre.

3. A Hilarious Villain

Johnny’s real name is John Prakasa Rao Janumala. Johnny worked in Hindustan Lever Factor with his father. Apart from working, he imitated an American Singer, Elvis Presley. Due to this skill, he was asked to perform at a function held by Hindustan Lever. It was the moment when his friends and seniors started calling him ‘Johnny Lever.’

4. An Amazing Artist

Johnny began performing musical shows. This led him to good popularity. He then joined the group of Kalyanji-Anandji, the great music director duo. Johnny felt blessed and worked relentlessly to achieve his goals. Feelings of failure were slowly fading from Johnny’s life, but the struggle continued for a while.

5. A Humorous Being

It was during 1980s when Johnny released his mimicry and comedy album, Hansee Ke Hungame. The album was a major hit globally and it took this amazing man to another level of recognition.

6. An Iconic Fighter

Johnny performed various shows with the music director duo, Kalyanji-Anandji. He felt blessed to have been given the opportunity for touring with Amitabh Bachchan in 1982. In the midst of his struggle,veteran actor Sunil Dutt noticed his hardships and talent; he offered Johnny his first movie, Dard Ka Rishta.

7. A Successful Star

Johnny’s first hit was Baazigar, which was directed by Abbas-Mustan. After this movie, he was chosen for almost every alternate movie as a supporting actor or comedian. Despite a handful of movies, Johnny continued to perform live shows. By this time, Johnny was at the peak of his career, but challenges started to throw again at this amazing personality.

8. A Committed Man and a Lovely Father

Johnny got married to a beautiful lady, Sujatha and has two children out of their wedlock. His daughter, Jamie Lever is also a standup comedian and she appeared in Kapil Sharma’s movie, Kis Kisko Pyaar Karoon as one of the lead actresses. Johnny couldn’t complete his studies, but he got his daughter educated as Masters in Marketing Communications from the University of Westminster, London. That’s commendable.

9. A Brave Personality

Johnny’s son, Jesse was only 10 when he was detected with tumour. Despite all the struggles in his life, Johnny kept smiling and made others laugh. However, this one incident took away comedy from Johnny’s life. He left comedy and did only one movie and one show a year. In one of the interviews Johnny expressed his helplessness by saying, “It was God’s will. I had always been a religious person, but one incident changed my life. My son was diagnosed with cancer. I was helpless and turned to God for help. I stopped working in films and spent all my time praying for him. Ten days later, when he was taken for a test, the doctors were surprised because the cancer had vanished. It was the beginning of a new life for me.”

10. A Religious Man

After his son’s miraculous results of cancer, Johnny became extremely religious. He was born in a Roman Catholic family, but never read the Bible. However, after this major change in his life, he started believing in the almighty and read the Bible completely. He admitted that he is not really a holy person, but something drags him to god for prayers as he strongly believes in him now.

11. A Well-Accomplished Comedian

Johnny has acted in more than 300 movies. He did an amazing job in his recent movies, Dilwale and Housefull 3.Hope you liked this article and the story of this amazing man, Johnny Lever. FilmyMantra team salutes to this brave man who survived as a winner despite major storms in his life.

Here are candid moments of your favorite stars. I am sure you will get chuckle after looking many of these pictures. Media never leaves them alone, their expressions gets caught even when they wink or laugh hard and find their way to make them more interesting on the entertainment page.

1. Kajol Devgan

Here it seems that Kajol tells Jaya ‘Look here’

2. Sonakshi Sinha

Looks like she’s pondering over something, something up there

3. Jaya Bachchan

It looks like Jaya is laughing on a PJ.

4. Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa shetty seems that someone scares her.

5. Sonam Kapoor

It seems as Sonam is gone out of control.

6. Deepika Padukone

It looks as if deepika is constipated

7. Anushka Sharma

Here nothing is clear that is Anushka is crying or laughing?

8. Kareena Kapoor

Here it seems that Kareena saw ‘Gulabjamun’

9. Aishwarya Rai

Here it seems that Aishwarya come to know about very secret thing by which she didn’t control over her.